Whoever knows himself, he knows his Lord!
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وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ نَسُوا اللّٰهَ فَأَنسَاهُمْ أَنفُسَهُمْ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
}
"And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves." Surah Hashr 59-19
This verse is a contrapositive proof of the truth of the saying (in the title). There are several other verses to that effect. Al-Qari quotes one of them:
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Regarding Whoever knows himself
{and who forsakes the religion of Ibrahim save him who fools himself } (2:130); "meaning, he ignores his own soul so that he does not know its Lord." Al-Qunawi cited the verse { Say: the spirit is from my Lord, and you have been told little about it } (17:85).
Another confirmation is in the verses We shall show them Our portents on the horizons and within themselves (41:53) and We verily created man and We know what his soul whispers to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein (50:16).
Another confirmation - cited by Imam al-Nawawi…
Regarding Whoever knows himself, Sh Gibril F Haddad
ʿAli Bin Abi Tālib's Advice
ʿAli (karrama-LLahu wajhahu) held my hand once, and he walked with me in the direction of the cemetery. When we reached the open desert, he soughed a deep breath before he said to me,
'O Kamīl son of Ziyād, hearts are like vessels, the best are exceptionally conscious and vast. Learn from what I am going to tell you. There are three types of people…
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ʿAli Bin Abi Tālib's Advice
(1) A godly scholar,
(2) a student who is seeking salvation, and
(3) a ferocious follower of every howler and his own type.
The third type of people are biased, and they float with the currents. They neither seek enlightenment through knowledge, nor do they take refuge in a safe recess during a storm.
You must understand that knowledge is better than money, for knowledge will guard you, while you have to be the guard of your money. Deeds are …
ʿAli Bin Abi Tālib's Advice
Women's Rights without Feminism
Feminism is an ideology that makes the female individual rather than the male individual the arbiter in working out of what is good for women. In Islam we make God the arbiter and the individual the agent in that. These are two different paradigms.
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Women's Rights without Feminism
Feminism is one approach among others towards women's rights just like capitalism and communism are different approaches or points of view to economics. So too, there are different forms of answers to women's rights and Islam provides a completely different approach.
Islam doesn't promise a utopia by any means, but it promises an optopia, it tries to calibrate different aspects of society such as they are an optimum performance, not perfection.
We don't have a present day model at which to point to, to show the way Islam ought to be manifested in society.
For example we can discuss all day about the God-given right for a woman to manage her own economic affairs, and be provided for, but these are but pipe dreams in situations of poverty.
Muslim communities are in a state of rehabilitation, after colonialism, and a very rich and sophisticated history of jurisprudence, of ijtihad, of legal reasoning, of development and of refinement were cut to an end due to colonialism and cannot blossom due to dictatorship and craving comfort on the back of others. (dunya)
Women's Rights without Feminism, Ustadha Zara Faris
Free Palestine!
We condemn the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine - day-in and day-out!
We condemn the daily kilings of Palestinian young men!
We condemn the daily demolitions of Palestinian houses!
We condemn the desecrating of the Muslim Holy sites in Jerusalem!
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Free Palestine!
We condemn the land robbery!
We condemn the uprooting of olivetrees, which belong to Palestinian farmers!
We condemn all the evil actions of the racist supremacists of the Zionist settler regime against the Palestinian indigenous inhabitants of the land!
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لَّا يَنْهَاكُمُ اللَّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجُوكُم مِّن دِيَارِكُمْ أَن تَبَرُّوهُمْ وَتُقْسِطُوا إِلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ اللّٰهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ
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{ Allah does not forbid you, with regard to those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and do not expel you from your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly. }
G-d's / God's / Allah's promise is not for Zionists to misuse the Bible and turn it into a land registry! God forbids stealing:
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.” Leviticus 19:11, Exodus 20:15
“Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.” Proverbs 10:2
Ya Rabb! Oh Allah! Give Your support for justice, dignity and peace to the Muslims (and other downtrodden people) of Yemen, Palestine, Kashmir, India, China, Syria, Lybia, Central African Republic (CAR), Nigeria and the Philippines, Bosnia and the rest!
Free Palestine!
Zarruq The Critic
The Shaikh was a constructive critic of the Jurists of his days and the pseudo-Sufis alike, he was motivated by his vigilant concern for Sufis and for Sufism.
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Zarruq The Critic
Zarruq's criticism was, on the other hand, full of sympathy and solicitude. In his works he was as much a guide to the right Way as he was a critic of the wrong one. He does not deplore, reject and neglect those deviators. Instead, he offers them the means of ridding themselves of their defects, such as “the means by which innovations will be eliminated and by which its adherents will go back in the right direction.”
Zarruq The Critic Dr. Ali Fahmi Khushaim, M.A. PH.D
Motherlist - Fiqh Issues
- Abu Hanifa
- I Am Disabled, Skip Fajr?
- Regarding Kibr (arrogance, pride)
- Apostate wife, mother
- If Hadith Authentic, Madhhab?
- Mahdi in hadith
- Atonement for Sins
- … (and 150 more)
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[fiqhi/ml155posts] By Sh G F Haddad
Jihad al-Nafs: Striving for Self-Perfection
{ As for those who strive (jahadu) in Us (the cause of Allah), We surely guide them to Our paths… }
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Jihad al-Nafs
Without purification, the nafs remains a "soul that enjoins evil" { al-nafs al - ammara bil-su' } until it surrenders itself in total obedience to the call of animal passions and shaytan.
Jihad al-Nafs G F Haddad
Acquiring the Prophetic Perception
The fact that there are still people who value leisure, who value contemplation, who value prayer and meditation, who value spending time with their families, rather than of more and more hours every day at the office in order to generate a heavier bank balance, more income in order to buy more techniques of destruction, is certainly a good sign.
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The Crisis of Modern Consciousness
We need to acquire a prophetic perception of the modern world if we are not to share in its unhappiness.
And a prophetic perception is necessarily a radical one. Properly speaking there is no intellectually coherent way of being a ’Moderate muslim’: as somebody who basically believes in the underlying logic of the modern world.
The Crisis of Modern Consciousness Abdul Hakim Murad
Women’s Education in the Zangi Era
This is a historical account of women’s education in the Zangi era in the rule of Nur ud-Deen Zangi, who ruled in Syria from 541 AH (1146 CE). He was a just and righteous leader and was well-loved by those under him. He was succeeded by Salahuddin Ayyubi, who followed in his footsteps.
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Role of Women in Islam
The devotion of Muslim women to Islamic studies reached high levels. Their purpose was to gain knowledge of the correct teachings of the religion and thereby bring them into practice. The subject that received the most regard was the study of hadith, in which many women attained high qualification. They competed with great Hadith scholars and memorizers of hadith therein and became profound examples of trustworthiness and uprightness.
[ This was long before the onslaught and destruction brought by colonialist powers.]
Many biographical accounts…
Role of Women in Islam, Dr. Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi
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Comment on: The Place of Women in Pure Islam, Sh G F Haddad
Comments on the distortions of a Christian site with this title
Women's Liberation Through Islam
Islam, fourteen centuries ago, made women equally accountable to God in glorifying and worshipping Him, while setting no limits on her moral progress. Also, Islam established a woman's equality in her humanity with men, In the Qur'an, in the first verse of the chapter entitled "Women"…
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Women's Liberation Through Islam
Today people think that women are liberated in the West and that the Women's liberation movement began in the 20th century. Actually, the women's liberation movement was not begun by women but was revealed by God to a man in the seventh century by the name of Muhammad (Peace be upon him), who is known as the last Prophet of Islam. The Qur'an and the Traditions of the Prophet (Hadith or Sunnah) are the sources from which every Muslim woman derives her rights and duties.
□ comment: Don't believe the continuously peddled lies and distortions against Islam. And remember most muslim countries are steered by autocrats and shameless tyrants.
Women's Liberation Through Islam, Mary Ali and Anjum Ali
Tasawwuf Shuyukh
The first in the long row of tasawwuf shuyukh is Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110). He was one of the early formal Sufis in both the general and the literal sense, as he wore all his life a cloak of wool (suf). The son of a freedwoman of Umm Salama's (the Prophet's wife) and a freedman of Zayd ibn Thabit's (the Prophet's stepson), this great Imam of Basra, the leader of saints and scholars in his day, was known for his strict and encompassing embodiment of the Sunna of the Prophet.
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Tasawwuf Shuyukh
He was also famous for his immense knowledge, his austerity and asceticism, his fearless remonstrances of the authorities, and his power of attraction both in discourse and appearance.
A group of women went out on the day of ʿEid and went about looking at people. They were asked: 'Who is the most handsome person you have seen today?' They replied: 'It is a shaykh wearing a black turban.' They meant Hasan al-Basri.
Basra is chief among the places of renown for the formal development of the schools of purification which became known as tasawwuf, but whose principles are none other than the Qur'an and the Sunna as we have already demonstrated at length.
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Tasawwuf Shuyukh
Islamic Concepts & Definitions
Sincerity - ikhlās - is the purification of your action from all (other traces of objectives), so that in it only exists the striving to come closer to Allah and no other motive." Al-Ghazalī in his Ihya
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Islamic Concepts & Definitions
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